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All’s Well That Ends Well at The Globe review: brisk, brutal and delightfully succinct

3/5 It’s not one for the ages, but this is a welcome chance to enjoy Shakespeare’s early ‘problem’ play

Evening Standard

AI can't replace creative filmmaking, says Ben Affleck

Movie star Ben Affleck has observed that AI "cannot write you Shakespeare".

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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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People can’t tell the difference between human and AI-generated poetry – new study

Has the bell finally tolled for Shakespeare and Byron? New research conducted by philosophers of science Brian Porter and Edouard Machery suggests that the latest AI-generated poetry is “indistinguishable from human-written poetry” and “rated more favourably”.

The Conversation

Love and grief collide in leafy adaption of Twelfth Night

Shakespeare is headed to Newcastle East.

Newcastle Herald

Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests

The Hollywood star is to appear at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Shakespeare’s late play about sorcery. But what is the secret to playing the great magician?

The Guardian - UK

Lukita Maxwell Is the Emotional Anchor of 'Shrinking' Season 2

The rising star discusses playing grieving teenager Alice on the Apple TV+ dramedy and acting alongside Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel.

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Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards

The Guardian - UK

Olivia Rodrigo is right: you shouldn’t date anyone who wants to go into space. But I have other red flags

The pop star has reminded us to shun would-be astronauts such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, writes Arwa Mahdawi. But what about people who hang toilet paper the wrong way?

The Guardian - UK

HBO Just Exposed a Dark Truth About Blockbuster Movies

Ticket sales aren't the only way superhero movies can recoup their massive budgets.

Inverse

Bill Nighy stole 'the complete works of Shakespeare' from a library

Bill Nighy stole from a library after applying for the Guildford School of Acting.

BANG Premier

When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, we know he means ‘control’

Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away

The Guardian - US

Paul Kelly: ‘Most of the time when I’m writing songs, I’m boring myself’

The singer-songwriter on the mystery of writing songs, Shakespeare and why he isn’t a natural musician

The Guardian - AU

Study Finally Proves a Monkey Could Actually Type Out Shakespeare -- But It Would Take a Really, Really Long Time

A new study demonstrates that a monkey could type out the works of Shakespeare, just not within the lifespan of our universe.

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Paul Kelly: Fever Longing Still – an old-school variety show with old-school oomph

With his 29th album, the Melbourne songwriter goes back to basics – assembling a classic rock band who tumble through tracks of desire and devotion

The Conversation

New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change

Unprecedented storms and devastating drought. Flash floods and wildfires ignited by the air’s dry heat. This is the experience for many in our modern world. But it was also the experience for those living amid England’s Little Ice Age.

The Independent UK

In 'Ibelin,' 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras

A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them

The Independent UK

In 'Ibelin' and 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras

A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside them

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, October 29 (#506)

Get today's NYT Connections hints and answers for today's puzzle #506 on October 29.

The Walrus

An Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism

Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a residential school. What if none of it is true?

The Guardian - UK

‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

In her new book the acclaimed actor imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said if they had had the chance

The Independent UK

David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work, work, work’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Golden Globe-winning actor and star of ‘Selma’ is currently tearing up the National Theatre stage in ‘Coriolanus’. But it’s a rare trip back home for the British-Nigerian actor who made his name in ‘Spooks’ but was forced moved to America in 2007 because of his struggle…

Marie Claire

Tommy Dorfman’s Return to Acting Is Anything But Tragic

The actress makes her Broadway debut in 'Romeo + Juliet' playing two distinct characters, but for Dorfman, the roles are a manifestation of her own coming-of-age.

The Guardian - US

Romeo + Juliet review – maximalist Broadway reinvention goes too far

West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take on the tragic romance

The Conversation

As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first?

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